Hardcover. London, Quartet, 1st UK, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 186 pages. Nicholson's 1st book in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Street Sleeper brings the road novel to England and into the 1980s. Ishmael, a renegede librarian, goes "on the road" in a customized Volkswagon Beetle which he names Enlightenment. He soon finds that the M62 is a poor substitute for Route 66.
Hardcover. New York, Scribners, 1st US, 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 360 pages. Cloth boards. Dust jacket shows usual wear- now protected with clear plastic cover.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st , 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 275 pages. SIGNED BY ANTONYA NELSON ON TITLE PAGE. Beautiful copy. Minor wear to brodart protected dust jacket, else like new. Two men meet briefly in a hospital, where both are visiting their dying fathers. They speak again just a few months later, when one of them impulsively calls the other, a psychologist, and a friendship of sorts starts to form. After the psychologist leaves his wife a few weeks later, she begins to fall in love with his friend, creating a triangle that threatens to destroy all three and their families. The wife must decide between two very different men, whom she loves in very different ways. As the focus of the novel turns toward the woman in the middle, it becomes increasingly clear that whomever she chooses, the effect on the lives of everyone involved will be immeasurable.
Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st , 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 279 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY CAREY on title page. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Sticker residue on front fly leaf otherwise very good.
Hardcover. NY, Henry Holt, 1st, 1904, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth with gilt desin. Frontispiece by W. Herbert Dunton. Covers with wear to corners, top and bottom edge of spine.
Hardcover. Dallas, TX, Baskerville, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Light stain to top edge, not affecting pages. Dust jacket corner chips, edgewear, otherwise VG/VG. When Vanessa Clayton realizes she is being stalked, she and three college friends, Kate, Annie, and Oola, are determined to turn the tables on the stalker
Hardcover. NY, Atlantic Monthly , 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 177 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy with minor wear to covers.
Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 255 pages. Red cloth, gilt title to spine. Mylar protected pictorial dust jacket. Lovely copy. Like new. A collection of three novellas, featuring: a blonde Midwestern woman with soft, pale arms, who wears lots of red, drives a big pink cadillac and has a reputation for being wild; a small French subeditor with smooth caramel skin; and a 17-year-old boy from Montana who smells like wheat.
Hardcover. London, Merrill & Baker, 1st Thus, 1900, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 504 pages (Vol. I) and 508 pages (Vol. II). Limited edition, #109 of 500. Introduction by Richard Garnett, editor. 52 captioned b/w illustrations by various artists, including two illustrated title pages. Color frontispiece in each volume. Half leather binding with raised spine bands, marble boards, and marble endpapers. Gilt lettering and decoration on spine. Some parts of leather are turning green. Light wear to cover edges, and minor chipping to spine edges. More serious chipping to top of spine on Vol. II, and frayed wear to top of spine on Vol. 1 Rear hinge of Vol. II is split about 3/4 of the way down, but cover is still attached. Previous owner's bookplate on inside front covers. Top edge gilt. Deckled page edges. Very Good.
Hardcover. NY, McBride, Nast and Co., 1st, 1915, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Shelf wear on bottom edge on board. Light soil on cover and spine. Previous owner's bookplate on front paste down and opposite title page.
Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown, 1st, 1921, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in a decorated cloth binding, 4 black & white illustrations by Charles Livingston Bull. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Otherwise clean.